Publications and Presentations
Journal Papers
2020
Jeff LeFevre, Carlos Maltzahn, “SkyhookDM: Data Processing in Ceph with Programmable Storage,” USENIX ;login: Magazine, May 12, 2020, https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2020/lefevre.2018
Philip Kufeldt, Carlos Maltzahn, Tim Feldman, Christine Green, Grant Mackey, Shingo Tanaka, “Eusocial Storage Devices - Offloading Data Management to Storage Devices that Can Act Collectively,” USENIX ;login: Magazine, Volume 43, Number 2, pp. 16–22, Summer, 2018.
Wehrhahn, C, Rodriguez, A., & Paciorek, C... Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Models Using NIMBLE. NeurIPS Workshop on Nonparametric Bayesian Models. Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10111139.
2017
Joshua Hacker, John Exby, David Gill, Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Timothy See, Gretchen Mullendore, Kathryn Fossell, “A containerized mesoscale model and analysis toolkit to accelerate classroom learning, collaborative research, and uncertainty quantification,” Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. Volume 98, pp. 1129-1138, 2017.
2016
Ivo Jimenez, Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Managing Scientific Experiments Like Software,” ;login: The USENIX Magazine, 41 (4): 20–26, Winter, 2016.
Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Adam Moody, Kathryn Mohror, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, “I Aver: Providing Declarative Experiment Specifications Facilitates the Evaluation of Computer Systems Research,” Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS), Volume 4, 2016
Refereed Conference & Workshop Papers
2021
Dixit, A., and Kolaitis, P. CAvSAT: Answering Aggregation Queries over Inconsistent Databases via SAT
Solving. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Shaanxi,
China, 2021), SIGMOD ‘21, ACM.
2020
Mapping Scientific Datasets to Programmable Storage. EPJ Web Conference, 2020. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/chu-epjconf-20/
The CROSS Incubator: A Case Study for funding and training RSEs. RSE-HPC – Introduction: Research Software Engineers in HPC: Creating Community, Building Careers, Addressing Challenges, co-located with SC20, 2020. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/lieggi-rse-hpc-20/
Enabling seamless execution of computational and data science workflows on HPC and cloud with the Popper container-native automation engine. CANOPIE HPC 2020 (at SC20), 2020. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/chakraborty-canopie-20/
Sheng-Hong Wang, Rafael T. Possignolo, Haven Skinner, and Jose Renau, “LiveHD: A Productive Live Hardware Development Flow,” IEEE Micro Magazine: Special Issue on Agile and Open-Source Hardware (Volume: 40, Issue: 4, July-Aug. 1 2020), https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9099056
Jianshen Liu, Matthew Curry, Carlos Maltzahn, Philip Kufeldt, “Scale-out Edge Storage Systems with Embedded Storage Nodes to Get Better Availability and Cost-Efficiency at the Same Time,” HotEdge '20, June 2020, https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotedge20/presentation/liu-jianshen
Haven Skinner, Rafael T. Possignolo, Sheng-Hong Wang, and Jose Renau. “LiveSim: A Fast Hot Reload Simulator for HDLs,” IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), April 2020, https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~renau/docs/ispass20.pdf
Jeff LeFevre, Carlos Maltzahn. “Scaling databases and file APIs with programmable Ceph object storage. 2020 Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference,” (Vault’20, co-located with FAST’20 and NSDI’20), February 2020, https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/lefevre-vault-20/lefevre-vault-20.pdf
Aaron Chu, Ivo Jimenez, Jeff LeFevre, Carlos Maltzahn. “SkyhookDM: Programmable Storage for Datasets.” Poster at IRIS-HEP Poster Session, February 2020. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/chu-irishep-20-poster/chu-irishep-20-poster.pdf
Alexandru Uta, Alexandru Custura, Dmitry Duplyakin, Ivo Jimenez, Jan Rellermeyer, Carlos Maltzahn, Robert Ricci, Alexandru Iosup. “Is Big Data Performance Reproducible in Modern Cloud Networks?” NSDI ‘20, February 2020. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/uta-nsdi-20/uta-nsdi-20.pdf
Jayjeet Chakraborty, Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Arshul Mansoori, Quincy Wofford. “Popper 2.0: A Container-native Workflow Execution Engine for Testing Complex Applications and Validating Scientific Claims.” Poster at 2020 Exaxcale Computing Project Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, February 3-7, 2020. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/chakraborty-ecpam-20/chakraborty-ecpam-20.pdf
2019
Sheng-Hong Wang, Rafael T. Possignolo, Qian Chen, Rohan Ganpati, and Jose Renau, “LGraph: A Unified Data Model and API for Productive Open-Source Hardware Design,” Second Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology (WOSET), November 2019. https://github.com/masc-ucsc/livehd/blob/master/docs/papers/LGraph_WOSET19.pdf
Kathryn Dahlgren, Jeff LeFevre, Ashay Shirwadkar, Ken Iizawa, Aldrin Montana, Peter Alvaro, Carlos Maltzahn. Towards Physical Design Management in Storage Systems. 4th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW 2019, co-located with SC’19), 2019. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/dahlgren-pdsw-19/dahlgren-pdsw-19.pdf
Aaron Chu, Jeff LeFevre, Carlos Maltzahn, Aldrin Montana, Peter Alvaro, Dana Robinson, Quincey Koziol. “SkyhookDM: Mapping Scientific Datasets to Programmable Storage.” 24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics, 2019. https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/publication/chu-chep-19/chu-chep-19.pdf
Dixit, A. A. and Kolaitis, P. G. "A SAT-based System for Consistent Query Answering." (2019). To appear in the Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. Full version of the paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02828
Jianshen Liu, Philip Kufeldt, Carlos Maltzahn, “MBWU: Benefit Quantification for Data Access Function Offloading,” in Weiland M., Juckeland G., Alam S., Jagode H. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11887.
Sheng-Hong Wang, Akash Sridhar, and Jose Renau, “LNAST: A Language Neutral Intermediate Representation for Hardware Description Languages,” WOSET, 2019.
Jeff LeFevre, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, “Skyhook: Programmable Storage for Databases,” 2019 Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference, Boston, MA, February 2019.
Philip Kufeldt, Jianshen Liu, and Carlos Maltzahn, “ MBWU (MibeeWu): Quantifying benefits of offloading data management to storage devices,” Poster Session at 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’19), Boston, MA, February 2019.
2018
Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, “Spotting Black Swans With Ease: The Case for a Practical Reproducibility Platform,” 1st Workshop on Reproducible, Customizable and Portable Workflows for HPC (ResCuE-HPC’18, co-located with SC’18), Dallas, TX, November 11, 2018 (slides).
Michael A. Sevilla, Carlos Maltzahn, “Popper Pitfalls: Experiences Following a Reproducibility Convention,” 1st International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Computer Systems (P-RECS, co-located with HPDC’18), Tempe, AZ, June 11, 2018.
Michael A. Sevilla, Reza Nasirigerdeh, Carlos Maltzahn, Jeff LeFevre, Noah Watkins, Peter Alvaro, Margaret Lawson, Jay Lofstead, Jim Pivarski, “Tintenfisch: File System Namespace Schemas and Generators,” 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’18, co- located with USENIX ATC’18), Boston, MA, July 9-10, 2018.
Michael Sevilla, Carlos Maltzahn, Peter Alvaro, Reza Nasirigerdeh, Bradley Settlemyer, Danny Perez, David Rich and Galen Shipman, “Programmable Caches with a Data Management Language & Policy Engine,” 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2018), Washington, DC, May 1-4, 2018.
Michael Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Noah Watkins, Jeff LeFevre, Shel Finkelstein, Peter Alvaro, Patrick Donnelly and Carlos Maltzahn, “Cudele: An API and Framework for Programmable Consistency and Durability in a Global Namespace,” 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2018), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 21-25, 2018.
2017
Zhihao Jia, Sean Treichler, Galen Shipman, Michael Bauer, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Pat McCormick, Alex Aiken, “Integrating External Resources with a Task-Based Programming Model,” 24TH IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2017), Jaipur, India, 18 - 21 December, 2017.
Noah Watkins, Michael Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Kathryn Dahlgren, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, Carlos Maltzahn, “DeclStore: Layering is for the Faint of Heart,” 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’17) co-located with USENIX ATC’17, Santa Clara, CA, July 10-11, 2017.
Ivo Jimenez, Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, “The Popper Convention: Making Reproducible Systems Evaluation Practical,” 2017 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 1561–70, 2017.
Ivo Jimenez, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Jay Lofstead, Carlos Maltzahn, Kathryn Mohror, Robert Ricci, “PopperCI: Automated Reproducibility Validation,” Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds (CNERT’17) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, May 1, 2017.
Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Ivo Jimenez, Peter Alvaro, Shel Finkelstein, Jeff LeFevre, Carlos Maltzahn, “Malacology: A Programmable Storage System,” EuroSys 2017, Belgrade, Serbia, April 23-26, 2017.
2016
Nicholas Brummell, John Gustafson, Andrew Klofas, Carlos Maltzahn, Adnrew Shewmaker, “Unum Arithmetic: Better Math with Clearer Tradeoffs,” 1st International Workshop on Post-Moore’s Era Supercomputing (PMES 2016), co-located with SC16, Salt Lake City, UT, November 14, 2016
2015
Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Adam Moody, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, “Tackling the Reproducibility Problem in Storage Systems Research with Declarative Experiment Specifications,” 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop at Supercomputing ’15 (PDSW 2015), Austin, TX, November 16, 2015.
Noah Watkins, Zhihao Jia, Galen Shipman, Carlos Maltzahn, Alex Aiken, Pat McCormick, “Automatic and Transparent I/O Optimization With Storage Integrated Application Runtime Support,” 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop at Supercomputing ’15 (PDSW 2015), Austin, TX, November 16, 2015.
Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Ike Nassi, Scott Brandt, Sage Weil, Greg Farnum, Sam Fineberg, “Mantle: A Programmable Metadata Load Balancer for the Ceph File System,” 28th ACM and IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC15), Austin, TX, November 2015.
Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, Adam Moody, Kathryn Mohror, Jay Lofstead, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, “The Role of Container Technology in Reproducible Computer Systems Research,” First Workshop on Containers (WoC 2015) (Workshop co-located with IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering - IC2E 2015), Tempe, AZ, March 9-13, 2015.
Other Publications and Presentations
2020
Kate Compton, “How Can an A.I. Develop Taste?”, Slate.com, July 25, 2020, https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/artificial-intelligence-personality-taste.htmlJianshen Liu, Matthew Curry, Carlos Maltzahn, Philip Kufeldt, “Scale-out Edge Storage Systems with Embedded Storage Nodes to Get Better Availability and Cost-Efficiency At the Same Time,” HotEdge '20
2019
Jeff LeFevre, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, “Skyhook: Programmable Storage for Databases,” 2019 Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference (Vault’19, co-located with FAST’19), Boston, MA, February 25-26, 2019.
Philip Kufeldt, Jianshen Liu, and Carlos Maltzahn, “ MBWU (MibeeWu): Quantifying benefits of offloading data management to storage devices,” Poster Session at 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’19), Boston, MA, February 25-28, 2019.
2018
Carlos Maltzahn, “Should Storage Devices Stay Dumb or Become Smart?” Breakouts Session abstract at 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’18, co-located with USENIX ATC’18), Boston, MA, July 9-10, 2018.
Ivo Jimenez, Carlos Maltzahn, “Reproducible Computational and Data-Intensive Experimentation Pipelines with Popper,” Lightning Talk and Poster Session at the 11th Extremely Large Databases Conference (XLDB), Stanford, CA, April 30 May 2, 2018.
Philip Kufeldt, Timothy Feldman, Christine Green, Grant Mackey, Carlos Maltzahn, Shingo Tanaka, “Eusocial Storage Devices,” WiP and Poster Sessions at 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’18), Oakland, CA, Feb 12-15, 2018.
R. T. Possignolo, S. H. Wang and J. Renau, “LGraph : A multi-language open-source database for VLSI” in WOSET’18.
2017
R. T. Possignolo and J. Renau, “LiveSynth: Towards an interactive synthesis flow,” in DAC’17.
2016
Noah Watkins, Michael Sevilla, Ivo Jimenez, Neha Ojha, Peter Alvaro, Carlos Maltzahn, “Brados: Declarative, Programmable Object Storage,” Poster Session at the 7th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2016 (SoCC’16), Santa Clara, CA, October 5-7, 2016.
